AWS Signs Memorandums of Understanding with the Governments of Chile and Honduras

AWS has signed Memorandums of Understanding with the governments of Honduras and Chile with the mission to work closely with the administrations, local universities, nonprofit organizations, associated agencies, and community leaders to modernize government services within the countries.

“Latin American governments continue to rapidly adopt AWS cloud services for the benefit of their citizens. Honduras and Chile are leaders in publicly adopting the latest technology, government cloud-first policies, and security standards for economic growth,” said Jeff Kratz, Director, Worldwide Public Sector for Latin America, Canada and the Caribbean, Amazon Web Services. “Strong engagement with our local partner communities, US Embassy teams, and NGOs will accelerate success for a better, safer Latin America.”

We are committed to preparing future generations for a competitive global economy and fostering intellectual development of new startups, while enabling economic growth and protecting its citizens in a connected world.

This signing and the rolling action plans for Chile and Honduras focus on three core goals:

Modernization of government systems and citizen services for a more connected, secure government. While assisting in many open data initiates to provide citizen transparency and visibility as well as modernization of various internal systems for a more efficient government, we look forward to bringing global security best practices to Chile and Honduras to help ensure a brighter, safer tomorrow.

Engaging many public and private universities with our AWS Educate Program to build the skills of future generations for success in a global economy. The AWS Educate program will ensure putting the right resources, curriculum, cloud credits and more in the hands of students and teachers, not only inspiring new innovation, but reinforcing science, technology, engineering, and mathematical skill development.

We will continue to foster a strong, vibrant, and world-class technology startup community. Through workshops, training, and programs such as AWS Activate which provides resources to new startups, we look forward to not only assisting customers to bring their new ideas to market, but also helping them sell these on a global marketplace through the AWS Marketplace.

We thank the Administrations of Chile and Honduras for their engagement and we look forward to working together on this next step in innovating for our customers in Latin America.